Strange Planet by Nathan W. Pyle

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[–] curiousPJ@lemmy.world -4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And plenty of people who don't really care to understand how deep the roots of inch stuff is. Most people have no clue how much aerospace is commanding the need for Inch. (ALL and every aerospace fasteners are inch.)

[–] seejur@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Curious, since NASA uses metric. How do the two industries work together?

[–] ephemerality@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

interestingly enough, there is an incident where a unit conversion cause a spacecraft to crash.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Climate_Orbiter

NASA specifies that companies who work with NASA should use metric units as a part of the contract. Lockheed produced software that output in imperial units and it caused the orbiter to flame out.